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79Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker * EDITED BY Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman (review)Analysis 70 (2): 379-381. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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281No New KierkegaardInternational Philosophical Quarterly 44 (4): 519-534. 2004.The aim of this paper is to contest an infl uential recent reading of one of Kierkegaard’s most important books, the pseudonymously written Concluding Unscientific Postscript. According to the reading offered by James Conant, the Postscript is an “elaborate reductio” of the very philosophical project in which it itself appears to be engaged, namely, the project of attempting to clarify the nature of Christianity. I show that Conant’s position depends upon four inter-related theses concerning Kie…Read more
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481A “resolute” later Wittgenstein?Metaphilosophy 41 (5): 649-668. 2010.Abstract: “Resolute readings” initially started life as a radical new approach to Wittgenstein's early philosophy, but are now starting to take root as a way of interpreting the later writings as well—a trend exemplified by Stephen Mulhall's Wittgenstein's Private Language (2007) as well as by Phil Hutchinson's “What's the Point of Elucidation?” (2007) and Rom Harré's “Grammatical Therapy and the Third Wittgenstein” (2008). The present article shows that there are neither good philosophical nor …Read more
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203Worlds or words apart? Wittgenstein on understanding religious languageRatio 20 (4). 2007.In this paper I develop an account of Wittgenstein's conception of what it is to understand religious language. I show that Wittgenstein's view undermines the idea that as regards religious faith only two options are possible – either adherence to a set of metaphysical beliefs (with certain ways of acting following from these beliefs) or passionate commitment to a ‘doctrineless’ form of life. I offer a defence of Wittgenstein's conception against Kai Nielsen's charges that Wittgenstein removes t…Read more
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63The ‘Default View’ of Perceptual Reasons and ‘Closure-Based’ Sceptical ArgumentsInternational Journal for the Study of Skepticism 7 (2): 114-135. 2017._ Source: _Volume 7, Issue 2, pp 114 - 135 It is a commonly accepted assumption in contemporary epistemology that we need to find a solution to ‘closure-based’ sceptical arguments and, hence, to the ‘scepticism or closure’ dilemma. In the present paper I argue that this is mistaken, since the closure principle does not, in fact, do real sceptical work. Rather, the decisive, scepticism-friendly moves are made before the closure principle is even brought into play. If we cannot avoid the sceptical…Read more
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34Kierkegaard contra Hegel on the'Absolute Paradox'Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 59 54-66. 2009.In the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion Hegel propounds three inter-related theses: (1) The radical continuity of religion and philosophy. (2) The view that philosophy renders in conceptual form the essence of what Christianity consists in and thus transcends the merely subjective vantage-point of faith. (3) Philosophy alone shows Christianity to be rational and necessary. Kierkegaard’s pseudonym, Johannes Climacus, attacks all three of these theses in Conculding Unscientific Postscript, a…Read more
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Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard on religious beliefIn Ulrich Arnswald (ed.), In Search of Meaning: Ludwig Wittgenstein on Ethics, Mysticism and Religion, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe. 2009.
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76Review of Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker (review)Analysis. forthcoming.
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81Epistemological Disjunctivism by Duncan PritchardAnalysis 75 (4): 604-615. 2015.1. In this exciting and ambitious book, Duncan Pritchard defends a novel conception of perceptual epistemic grounds, which can both be factive and reflectively available to the agent. Pritchard calls this position the ‘holy grail’ of epistemology for its power to undercut two of contemporary epistemology’s most central problems: the epistemic internalism/externalism controversy and radical scepticism. While Pritchard’s book manages to make a convincing case for why one should accept epistemologi…Read more
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